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Analysis
After the ceasefire agreement adopted in January 2025, Muslims and the international community took action to halt Israeli attacks and to open the door to humanitarian aid for Gaza. As humanitarian aid convoys moved from Egypt towards Gaza, Israeli forces began a limited withdrawal from residential areas…
Samir Altunkaynak
Analysis
In a significant development in the context of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. This decision, issued at a time when humanitarian violations against Palestinians are continuing…
Dr Gülşen Y. Sağlam
Analysis
With Donald Trump’s return to the presidency of the United States for a second time, questions have begun to mount about how this new era will affect the international stage, and the Middle East in particular. With the slogan “We will fix America”, Trump appears to be promising sweeping reforms in domestic and foreign policy…
Dr Gülşen Y. Sağlam
Interview
If the war spreads to the sea or Rafic Hariri International Airport is targeted, it will become even more difficult for Türkiye to evacuate its citizens. The fact that the first evacuation was carried out successfully on 10 October is very important. Indeed, Türkiye is currently also ensuring the safe evacuation…
Dr Gülşen Y. Sağlam
Analysis
From Türkiye’s perspective, it can be said that Israel’s potential to pose a direct military threat to Türkiye on its own is weak. Türkiye’s geographical size, its population and the military technology it possesses, as well as its military alliances and geopolitical depth, cause Israel to refrain from…
Samir Altunkaynak
Analysis
On 1 October 2024 Iran retaliated against Israel for the 2nd time with ballistic and hypersonic missiles. A statement issued by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that the attack had been carried out in response to the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Revolutionary Guards Major General Abbas Nilforoushan…
Prof. Veysel Ayhan
Analysis
In a statement during a visit to the northern settlement of Kiryat Shmona on 5 June 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that they were prepared for “extremely powerful action against Lebanon”. In September 2024 Israeli forces carried out a large-scale cyber attack against Lebanon for the first time…
Prof. Veysel Ayhan
Analysis
Since 7 October, President Erdoğan had repeatedly drawn attention to Israeli expansionism and the threat of a regional war. Israel’s cyber attack on Lebanese Hezbollah on 17-18 September is being read as an open declaration of war. The President’s warning that Israel wanted to spread the war across the region…
Samir Altunkaynak
Analysis
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which escalated once again on 7 October 2023, has been a turning point for Saudi Arabia. Like Europe and the United States (US), as well as other countries of the Arab world, Riyadh had in recent years almost entirely disregarded the political significance of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict…
Prof. Veysel Ayhan
Analysis
Stating that Ismail Haniyeh was an important leader in the Palestinian cause, Prof. Veysel Ayhan said: “On 31 July Israel carried out an assassination attempt against Ismail Haniyeh, Head of Hamas’s Political Bureau, in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in the attack together with his bodyguard, was…
Prof. Veysel Ayhan
Analysis
On 21 July, following intense criticism, President Biden announced his withdrawal from the election to be held on 5 November. Biden stated that he had withdrawn his presidential candidacy of his own free will. As Biden’s withdrawal is a rare event in American history, it has also raised many questions with regard to electoral law…
Samir Altunkaynak
Article
In examining the present-day economic and social position of women, the historical process must be taken into account, because gender roles and patriarchy are not concepts that have existed since the dawn of humankind. In primitive nomadic societies there was no inequality in gender relations in the present-day…
Songül Ceren Özkan
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